Everyone knows that ticks can spread Lyme disease, but did you know that four new kinds of tick-borne illnesses have been recently identified? Scary. Apparently, tick-borne diseases are significantly more common than the general public (or even science) realizes.*Even more reason to slather on...
A small cluster of unusual illnesses at a Colorado children's hospital prompted an investigation that swiftly identified alcohol prep pads contaminated with Bacillus cereus bacteria, according to a report in the July issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the...
A bacterium historically associated with cat scratch fever and transmitted predominately by fleas may also play a role in human rheumatoid illnesses such as arthritis, according to new research from North Carolina State University. Bartonella is a bacterium that is maintained in nature by fleas...
for an assignment I'm doing. Please suggest some things that babies can be either born with or develop from their birth - not really rare stuff but stuff that can happen sometimes.
Celebrity Illnesses/Sickness, etc?
There are terminal illnesses that claim the lives of thousands. People we know of, are family and friends, etc.
But what makes me cynical and upset is that anytime someone who is famous, (internet famous, 15-minute famous, whatever...) gets sick or their...